Tag: awareness

At the beginning of each year, there are many pundits, experts, self-proclaimed gurus, and other suspicious characters who’d like to sell you stuff predicting the directions of the Stock Markets. As I personally have ample years of experience in the…

This post is for you. Yes, you, who sent me that e-mail yesterday asking me whether it would be a good timing to start investing in the stock market right now. I understood from your mail that you have not…

Or otherwise known as reliance on old-fashioned financial institutions and outdated economic structures. Partly, it is due to habit; partly, because of our concerns about liquidity; and partly, because we think that it is always risky to experiment with new things where we might lack…

Emotions are the main cause and driving force in the stock markets. Last week I shared some thoughts why understanding our mind as a tool that tries to live in an uncertain world is an important challenge. Because the brain…

Before you read on, take a minute and think about this question for a while. Look back at your recent transactions. How did you arrive at those decisions? Are you happy with your past decisions? Any regrets? C’mon. If you’ve…

Enoughism* You have to find, define and fix your personal level of ENOUGH. Where you possess everything you need, and buying more would actually make you worse off. In my most recent post I have brought up the crucial question:…

Yaaawwnn. The stock markets in the last few weeks have been rather boring and uneventful. The US-market (measured by the S&P 500) has even entered an unusually long period of volatility contraction. The daily market moves up a bit and…

A few weeks ago and before my long vacation to Europe I published one post about the stuff I read online. I decided to keep this up on irregular intervals. So since a few days I am back in Singapore…

Reading is not too bad an investment of time. In a short period of time I get to absorb what took someone else years to accumulate, understand, distill, and refine. There could be so much to learn from what I…

In my previous post I shared a few thoughts on probabilities and statistics. I wrote about disregarding probabilities in decision making, ignoring small probabilities and not over-weighting small probabilities. A tough act to follow. I am totally guilty of failing…

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